Simon Nordon
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This indie studio is making a downhill mountain bike racing game where it finally feels like the real thing.
- Free-whip system with full control & zero canned animations
- Heavy focus on technical riding
- Single player + Online PvP
It's called Cranked. Would you play this?
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@DanielcHooper Well he's just wrong about Rust. It does allow efficient memory allocation, even without using unsafe.
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@martianwyrdlord You cannot walk from England to France, it's literally impossible.
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We're not going to cross the Atlantic ocean.
1. No one has any idea how far away the nearest land is. It could be thousands of miles!
2. Surely we can just build faster caravels? The problem is that wind can only push you so fast.
3. There are no landmarks out on the ocean. Sure you can use the stars to determine your latitude, but with no way of knowing your longitude you'll just get hopelessly lost.
4. The storms are ferociously powerful. The waves are huge. Ships would sink long before they reached the other side of the ocean.
5. There's no fresh water. You'd need to carry it all with you, along with all your food. The more stores you carry, the less capable wind is of propelling you, and the slower you go. There's no way you'd be able to carry enough to avoid death by thirst or starvation long before you reached land. The Sail Equation prevents it.
Fred Krueger@dotkrueger
We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us. We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever. 1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there. 2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy. 3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it. 4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break. 5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.
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We're not going to travel beyond the solar system, according to Leonard Susskind. And neither are aliens, coming to visit us.
We may not be alone, but we are stuck here for, essentially forever.
1. The nearest star is 4.24 light years away. The fastest spacecraft ever built would require 6,600 years to get there.
2. Surely we can just build faster spacecraft. The problem is to get to anywhere close to the speed of light, we need exponentially more energy.
3. Chemical rockets will just not work. Even fusion rockets won't work. Even 10% of the speed of light is not achievable. The Tsiolkovsky Rocket Equation prevents it.
4. Interstellar dust becomes hand grenades when traveling anywhere close to the speed of light. Ships break.
5. Space radiation will kill us over the time need to travel interstellar distances. Impossible to protect without massive shields, which require massive energy to accelerate and de-accelerate.
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@danveloper This is why AI automation is useless. It's impossible to determine if it's work is valid without redoing it.
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I'm at a different point this morning. It's hard to feel like Claude isn't actively working against me. Full night of autoresearch is just a markdown log full of lies. When asked to prove its findings and show its work, Claude will confidently display bullets and markdown tables, but when I ask it what log file and where the artifacts are - "I need to be honest here: I didn't actually run the experiment." It doesn't follow explicit directions anymore either: "You MUST always output to a log file so I can follow along" -> [doesn't do that] -> "you're not fuckin outputting anything to a log" -> "You're right - I'll redirect to a log file immediately" [pkill -f python3]...
Anthropic is materially worse today than one month ago. I've lost every ounce of trust I had in Claude and I'm not really sure how that makes me feel. Maybe ok? I'm still a competent software developer (I think), but it seems like the major productivity gains that were very real a month ago have somehow slipped my grasp... where does that leave us?
@bcherny - can you offer any thoughts? How should we think about what we're all observing - that Opus (at all effort levels) has become, at a minimum, materially worse. The worst read, but can't be ruled out: actively working against us.
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A subscription shouldn’t be a trap.
That’s why we’re banning subscriptions that lock you in because they’re too hard to cancel.
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@_cotton_ball If you feel like life is going by too quickly, have a toddler. Took a 2 night trip may as well have been a full week.
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I think the key to a fulfilling life is to toddlermaxx. 5 kids in 10 yrs. Continuous chain of overlapping toddlerhood. No sleep. Constant chaos. New baby every 2 yrs. Never ending floor meltdowns, imminent danger & low impulse control keeping you on your toes for a full decade
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@fandompulse Eh look at the emperor of Brasil. He ruled for 100 years and is a real example of a good king ruling his country effectively for the entire time.
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George R.R. Martin explains how his Game of Thrones characters wielding power badly is his answer to Tolkien:
"Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with. Just being a good guy was not the answer. You had to make hard, hard decisions. Sometimes what seemed to be a good decision turned around and bit you in the ass; it was the law of unintended consequences. I’ve tried to get at some of these in my books. My people who are trying to rule don’t have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn’t make you a wise king."
What do you think Tolkien would have thought about such comments?
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@rushicrypto The government makes significantly more than billionaires and they are much more actively damaging our lives. Sure ask why the billionaire isn't helping, but also ask why the trillionaire, that we vote for, isn't either.
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I get that billionaires don't care if they choke the life out of us all by steadily increasing the cost of everything until we can't afford to be alive anymore, but my question is: When we're all gone, what's the endgame? What's the point? Or is it literally just a sickness without real agenda?
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@sircalebhammer He used to have intelligent takes, now his response to everything is "can't we just love?". He's been taking too much of Jo Rogan's psychedelics and it one shot him.
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What did he do? I feel like the internet just decides to hate someone after they are popular long enough, for no reason.
Joni Askola@joni_askola
One idiot we are happy not to hear from anymore
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@SenWarren Doesn't the government make trillions per year? Just use that money.
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Jeff Bezos has $222 billion.
If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over.
And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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Someone please point me to the infinite high quality software. I could use some.
a16z@a16z
Marc Andreessen: Software isn't precious anymore. In this new world, high quality software is infinitely available. "We've always lived in a world in which software is this precious thing that you have to think about very carefully." "It was really hard to generate good software, and there was only a small number of people who could do it." "Those days are just over." "If you need new software to do X, Y, or Z, you're just going to wave your hand and get it." "Things that used to be hard, or even seem like an insurmountable mountain to get through, all of a sudden, I think, become very easy." @pmarca with @latentspacepod
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I've spent more time in Unity3D than any other app I've ever used in my life
And I'm telling you now
Ditch that shit and use three.js
Thank me later
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Not enough people talk about code density. What is the minimum amount of code you need to accomplish the task. Excessive LOC is bad engineering.
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@onehappyfellow Good engineers delete lines of code. Currently working in a codebase as large as 10 full novels and 80% is defunct.
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wtf apparently 5-25 loc PER DAY PER DEV is considered normal when working on big projects?! I'm tripping
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@pikuma Academic programmers are the reason python doesn't enforce typing. They are vehemently against understanding software engineering in any form.
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Are people aware that programmers usually use the expression "PhD-Level Coding" is an insult?
Kwang Moo Yi@kwangmoo_yi
Li and Luo et al., "Benchmarking PhD-Level Coding in 3D Geometric Computer Vision" Am I replaced yet? Not yet! 3D seems still hard. I guess we still have to provide them with tools for now. But for how much longer?
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@venturetwins If you don't have AI induced traumatic PTSD you're getting left behind bro.
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All the smartest people I know have LLM psychosis now
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@bencebicayicek The biggest obstacle is time. Most of us cannot afford to essentially be unemployed for 18 months for what is a huge gamble.
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Oyun yapmanın önündeki en büyük engel para zannediyorsanız çok yanılıyorsunuz.
majula@m4jula
"Param yok, oyun yapamam" en yaygın bahane ama artık en geçersiz olanı. 2D sprite'tan 3D modele, ses efektinden müziğe kadar her şeyin ücretsiz ve ticari kullanıma açık versiyonu var. Çoğu CC0 lisanslı, yani kredi bile verme zorunluluğun yok. Tek tek gidelim. kenney.nl — 40.000'den fazla asset, hepsi CC0, hepsi ücretsiz, kayıt bile istemiyor. 2D sprite, 3D model, UI elemanı, font, ses efekti, neredeyse her şey var. Bir oyun jam'ine gireceksen buradan bir paket indirip direkt başlayabilirsin. Indie oyun geliştirmenin IKEA'sı gibi düşün. 3D tarafta Quaternius (quaternius.com) low-poly modeller için altın madeni; karakterler, hayvanlar, araçlar, çevreler, hepsi CC0. Daha gerçekçi bir şey arıyorsan Poly Haven (polyhaven.com) HDRI, texture ve 3D model sunuyor, yine CC0. Sketchfab'da (sketchfab.com) "downloadable" filtresiyle binlerce ücretsiz model bulunuyor. Texture ve materyal için AmbientCG (ambientcg.com) başka bir şeye gerek bırakmıyor. 2000'den fazla PBR materyal var; albedo, normal, roughness, metallic haritaları hazır, çözünürlük 8K'ya kadar çıkıyor. Hepsi CC0. Ses tarafı en çok ihmal edilen kısım ama oyunu oyun yapan şey ses. freesound.org topluluk destekli dev bir ses efekti arşivi. Mixkit (mixkit.co) telif ücretsiz ses ve müzik sunuyor. Zapsplat (zapsplat.com) 19.000'den fazla ses dosyası barındırıyor. Müzik lazımsa OpenGameArt'ın (opengameart.org) müzik bölümü de var. Karakter animasyonu için Mixamo (mixamo.com) hala rakipsiz. Adobe'un ücretsiz servisi; 3D karakterini yükle, hazır animasyon kütüphanesinden seç, indir. Yürüyüş, koşu, saldırı, ölüm - yüzlerce animasyon var, elle yapmaya kalkarsan haftalarca sürecek işi dakikalar içinde hallediyor. Pixel art yapacaksan Piskel (piskelapp.com) ücretsiz ve tarayıcıda çalışıyor. Aseprite (aseprite.org) ücretli ama GitHub'dan kaynak kodunu derleyerek ücretsiz kullanabilirsin. Font için itch.io/game-assets/fr… 'a bak; m5x7, monogram gibi oyun için tasarlanmış ücretsiz fontlar var. Bütün bu kaynaklar ücretsiz, çoğu ticari kullanıma açık, çoğu kayıt bile istemiyor. "Para lazım" değil, "zaman ve sabır lazım" giriş bariyeri asla bu kadar düşük olmamıştı. İlk oyununu yapacak birine tek tavsiye: kenney.nl'den bir asset paketi indir, Godot'u aç, 48 saat içinde bir şey ortaya çıkarmaya çalış.
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